Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence
(asked on 20th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Departments are required to use the AI Impact Evaluation Framework.
Answered by
Kanishka Narayan
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2026
The AI Impact Evaluation Framework is non-statutory guidance rather than a mandatory requirement.
In line with HM Treasury’s Green and Magenta Books, Accounting Officers and individual departments are responsible for the proportionate evaluation of their own policies, programmes, and digital tools. Departments are expected to draw on the Framework to assess the impact and risks of artificial intelligence deployments in a manner proportionate to their scale, public impact, and cost.